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- 05/17/08
| Name: | Bill Lazar |
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| Homepage URL: | www.billsaysthis.com |
| Location: | mountain view, ca |
| ZIP Code: | 94040 |
| Gender: | male |
| Member since: | March 23, 2003 |
| Last visit: | May 14, 2008 |
billsaysthis has posted 112 links and 3351 comments to SportsFilter and 6 threads and 301 comments to the Locker Room.
Minnow's harpoon on target again 19th place in the Championship hosting No. 3 in the Prem and for the second round in a row the Tykes do the business. 96 years since they were last in the semi-finals and they won the trophy that year. With Harry Redknapp's Pompey taking down the Red Devils, the last four will include at least two second division or lower clubs. And possibly a third depending on if Middlesbrough or Cardiff play to recent form tomorrow. Cliche or not, this is the beauty of the FA Cup.
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work Excellent example of true geek humor, so of course baseball fans will probably hate this one.
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Fans make Liverpool takeover move Liverpool supporters are to launch an ambitious plan to buy the football club from its current American owners and turn it towards the Spanish/German model. "The Champions League has been won on six occasions in the last 15 years by clubs owned and run in such a way," said football business lecturer Rogan Taylor, one of the three prime movers.
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
OTHER MOMENTS IN A SOCCER PLAYER'S LIFE. It's the off-season. Sergio stands before Sheri, his gorgeous cocoa-skinned girlfriend of nearly one week. They're in his South Beach mansion's movie room. She claims that she loves him ... but she really wants to choose the movie tonight.
"Please, Sergio? I love-love-love Brad Pitt and George Clooney," she says.
Sergio falls to the fine carpet, screaming, holding his hands over his heart as if he had been kicked there. The pain is too much for him to bear! He might not be able to take it one second longer!
posted on Jan 5, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Soccer by Ives Ives Galarcep, a blogger, soccer beat reporter for a Jersey newspaper and ESPN.com for the last decade, took the increasingly common plunge and left his newspaper home to launch a global soccer news site for the American fan. Tagline: "Spanning the world of soccer with an American voice and a Jersey flavor"
posted on Jan 2, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
There is an "I" in "Team"? Rochelle High School track standout Bonnie Richardson wins the state track title, the TEAM TRACK TITLE, all by herself.
posted to Other at 9:49 AM CDT
D'Antoni accepts Knicks' offer Mike D'Antoni is set to become coach of the New York Knicks, bringing his entertaining offensive style from the Phoenix Suns to a team coming off one of the worst seasons in its history. Can he make the Knicks contenders again?
posted to Basketball at 4:48 PM CDT
And we all know how patient and forgiving the NY media are, eh? I hope that money's guaranteed down the line.
Maybe this is part of Cablevision's strategy behind buying Newday? Own the media, it's harder for them to hold your team up to ridicule.
posted at 3:00 PM CDT on May 12
Chelsea beat Liverpool, set up final battles with Man Utd for Premier League and Champions League Chelsea broke their Liverpool and Champions League jinx with a 3-2 (4-3 aggregate) win to move into the final against Premier League leaders Manchester United. Has this ever happened before, where the same top two domestic teams (they are tied on points but United has far superior goal difference with two matches to go) are also in the Champions League final?
posted to Soccer at 4:25 PM CDT
When Babel scored that wild goal I thought we were in for another miracle finish but Chelsea were (ack!) the better team. I remain confused why the 'Pool kicked the ball around the last bit of the second half instead of attacking though this hubris was probably the cause of our downfall.
posted at 11:58 PM CDT on April 30
posted to Baseball at 10:27 AM CDT
When we grow up this will not seem out of the ordinary.
posted at 3:37 PM CDT on April 30
Chiefs trade Jared Allen to Minnesota: League leading sack specialist Jared Allen has been traded to Minnesota for first and third round draft picks.
posted to Football at 11:36 AM CDT
Of course, the Vikings will benefit immediately, where as the Chiefs won't feel the effect of their draft picks for another couple of years.
If the Chiefs trade up and get someone like Dorsey, or even if they don't, plenty of first rounders, especially on defense or the O line, have first year impact. Just look at the 49ers #1 last year, Patrick Willis, who lead the team in tackles. Contrary example is just across the Bay, though, Raiders and overall #1 JaMarcus Russell, but he foolishly held out for a better deal and lost a year of playing time.
posted at 2:49 PM CDT on April 24
Where have you gone Darius Miles? Former basketball phenom Darius Miles waived by the Trailblazers after the team, and an independent doctor appointed by the NBA, deem his injuries "career-ending".
posted to Basketball at 11:17 AM CDT
Well, beneficial to Allen except for the $21 million the team still has to cough up. So not 100% dream result. Not 0% either, just not 100%.
posted at 2:19 PM CDT on April 15
Frozen Four: Where Eagles Soar The Boston College Eagles won the 2008 NCAA Frozen Four championship by knocking off this year's Cinderalla, Notre Dame, 4-1. This is BC's third national championship. Game Notes. Slide Show.
posted to Hockey at 10:04 AM CDT
BC: Thank you for beating the ND. Any team that beats ND in any sport is okay with me.
posted at 2:32 PM CDT on April 15
Basqueing in Glory: Athletic Bilbao is Europe's most exotic football club. For 80 years, the legendary club has managed to keep itself in Spain's top division, fielding players recruited exclusively from the Basque region. But how long can the fiercely independent club continue to resist the trends of globalization?
posted to Soccer at 2:35 PM CDT
Good article. Some traditions are worth keeping even if the result is not always the best. From my long distance perspective, that Athletico Bilbao should have this tradition resonates strongly with the persistence of their region's lengthy campaign for independence. Maybe they will go down, maybe not; either way they are still the club of the Basques.
posted at 2:51 PM CDT on April 11
Formula One president caught in Nazi bondage orgy scandal. [Max] Mosley's five-hour encounter with five women in a bondage orgy has prompted accusations of Nazi role-playing and engulfed the Formula One racing world in a leadership crisis that prompted the sport's ruling body Wednesday to announce a meeting of its governing assembly June 3 to decide whether Mosley can keep his post.
posted to Auto Racing at 6:53 PM CDT
Best or funniest, jc? Or best as well as funniest?
posted at 2:40 PM CDT on April 11
Improv Everywhere makes the kids' day. For one day, two Little League teams got to experience the big leagues; complete with shirtless fans, NBC's Jim Gray calling the game, a jumbotron and the Goodyear blimp.
posted to General at 3:57 PM CDT
Wow!
posted at 2:44 PM CDT on April 8
Olympic torch put out by protests. Security officials canceled the final run of the Olympic relay through Paris after chaotic protests Monday, sending a snuffed-out torch to its destination on a bus in a humiliating concession to protesters decrying China's human rights record.
posted to Olympics at 12:24 PM CDT
If this were a FIFA event France, and maybe England, would be banned from the Olympics for not properly managing security. Mind you, I'm with the protesters, I just think the way FIFA plays hardball is amusing.
posted at 3:06 PM CDT on April 7
Liverpool Co-Owner: Fans Hate Tom Hicks American billionaire George Gillett is kicking himself for buying Liverpool FC with fellow Yank Tom Hicks. Since Hicks scuttled a deal by a Dubai group that wants to buy out Gillett's 50 percent, the owners have gotten an enormous amount of hate mail and calls from angry fans, according to his co-owner. "The thing that angers fans the most is the prospect I might sell even one share of my stock to my partner," Gillett said in a radio interview. "They do not want him to have any controlling interest in this club -- they do not even want him to have any ownership in the club. As a result of that -- and it's been very difficult for my wife with the amount that I travel -- we receive many phone calls in the middle of the night threatening our lives -- death threats."
posted to Soccer at 6:43 PM CDT
I haven't read any serious complaints about the Glasers in some time now, nor any at all really about Randy Lerner since he took over Aston Villa. There are some bad owners in any top-flight sport league and it has nothing to do with being American or whatever, that some bad owners are American is simply coincidence.
Of course as a Reds fan I'd really like this sorted, and soon.
posted at 3:05 PM CDT on March 31
georgieB, you and I simply disagree. I see little in the way of facts behind your opinion of the Glazers, except of course they did take the loans, though I'm not interested in changing what you think or disputing your entitlement to feel how you do. However, the Red Devils did win the EPL last year and are likely to do so again this, with the Champions League a possibility as well so the financial maneuvering doesn't seem to have had on-field impact.
Note that I'm not saying SAF isn't the most important factor in said success, nor am I saying he is. I would also point out that he's been given a transfer budget the last few years that only Abramovitch surpassed. Speaking of Chelsea's Russian owner, he doesn't attend all his team's home games--should he be forced to sell?
As for how I came to be a Reds fan, what difference does it make? You're probably assuming it happened when they had all the success in the '70s and '80s and, yes, it was at that time, but not because of it. A college friend from England was a Liverpool fanatic and it was his influence which was the cause.
posted at 6:16 PM CDT on April 1
I would think that United won the Premiership last year and challenging for more honours this year in spite of the Glazers
Think all you like, I'm not disputing your opinion and you may well be correct, but if you want to convince me (or others, I suspect) you need to back that up with real data. The Glazers have splashed out large quantities of cash for Tevez, Anderson, Nani and Hargreaves (not sure when Vidic came in), all without forcing SAF to sell any of the big contributors, which to me says they are not (only) running the club for financial gains.
What do you see that's different?
posted at 3:00 PM CDT on April 3
Your facts do nothing to support your argument (IMO). For instance, the Glazers may not have (yet) paid a transfer fee for Tevez but they were behind a major court/PR case to get him onboard and are certainly paying him a decent wage and while SAF may have wanted Hargreaves, the previous owners couldn't get the deal done and the current ones did.
What would show me the strength of your assertion is negative things that can be clearly laid at the owners' feet. Raising ticket prices might be the one thing that comes close, except that plenty of teams raise ticket prices, and Old Trafford is full every time I see ManU on TV. The club started selling players who were still making significant contributions without having a clear replacement on hand, dragging them all over the globe in the summer for exhibitions, requiring fans to buy Personal Seat Licenses*, all those would be signs of the apocalypse you seem to feel has already happened.
Every team owner would like to make a profit, and for that matter a bigger one than last year. Since ManU are about the biggest club in the world I'm not surprised it can deliver on that desire.
* see Raiders, Oakland, NFL, on their return from LA.
posted at 3:44 PM CDT on April 4
Wow! Not only did she win, it wasn't even close as she had 1/6 more points than the second place team!